"I was a protestor. I was such a protestor that I regularly protested things that might have been good for me."

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Source : Maria Dahvana Headley (2007). “The Year of Yes”, Hyperion

Maria Dahvana Headley

#Might Quotes #Might Have Been Quotes

“I donâ€™t trust beauty anymore / when will I stop believing it?”
“Nothing is lost. . .Everything is transformed.”
“Part of me loves and respects men so desperately, and part of me thinks they are so embarrassingly incompetent at life and in love. You have to teach them the very basics of emotional literacy. You have to teach them how to be there for you, and part of me feels tender toward them and gentle, and part of me is so afraid of them, afraid of any more violation.”
“There is beauty in space, and it is orderly. There is no weather, and there is regularity. It is predictable. Just look at our little Explorer; you can set your clock by it-literally; it is more accurate than your clock. Everything in space obeys the laws of physics. If you know these laws, and obey them, space will treat you kindly.”
“To get all there is out of living, we must employ our time wisely, never being in too much of a hurry to stop and sip life, but never losing our sense of the enormous value of a minute.”
“My goal as an actor was to work - to be a working actor, whether it was in theater, and, well, I didn't even consider film and television when I was in New York, but what came along, came along.”

Source : Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. December 20, 2007.
“We make choices everyday, some of them good, some of them bad. And - if we are strong enough - we live with the consequences.”

Source : David Gemmell (2005). “Lord of the Silver Bow”, Bantam Press
“If you cannot fail, you cannot learn.”

Source : Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.50, Crown Business

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